Earnest: A Pledge or Token

Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

…placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.

…who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.